5g Radio Access Networks: Centralized Ran, Cloud-Ran and Virtualization of Small Cells (Hardcover)

SECTION I 5G RAN ARCHITECTURES AND APPLICATIONS

1 Frameless Network Architecture for User-Centric 5G Radio Access Networks
XIAODONG XU, ZHAO SUN, AND JIAXIANG LIU

2 Distributed Architecture of 5G Mobile Networks for Efficient Computation Management in Mobile Edge Computing
ZDENEK BECVAR, MATEJ ROHLIK, PAVEL MACH, MICHAL VONDRA, TOMAS VANEK, MIGUEL A. PUENTE, AND FELICIA LOBILLO

3 Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Schemes for Next-Generation 5G Networks: A Survey
NAMADEV BHUVANASUNDARAM, HUAN X. NGUYEN, RAMONA TRESTIAN, AND QUOC-TUAN VIEN

4 Performance Evaluation of NOMA under Wireless Downlink Cloud Radio Access Networks Environments
QUOC-TUAN VIEN, NGOZI OGBONNA, HUAN X. NGUYEN, RAMONA TRESTIAN, AND PURAV SHAH

5 Cloud Computing: The Flexible Future
JOANNA KUSZNIER, XUAN THUY DANG, AND MANZOOR AHMED KHAN

SECTION II 5G RAN VIRTUALIZATION SOLUTIONS

6 Software-Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization for C-RAN Systems
MASSIMO CONDOLUCI, TOKTAM MAHMOODI, AND GIUSEPPE ARANITI

7 Software-Defined Networking in the World of C-RAN
BOLAGALA SRAVYA AND HRISHIKESH VENKATARAMAN

8 Managing Mobility with SDN: A Practical Walkthrough
XUAN THUY DANG AND MANZOOR AHMED KHAN

9 Autonomic Network Management
MANZOOR AHMED KHAN

10 Distributed Data Aggregation and Compression for 5G Virtual RAN IoT Sensor Applications
NIKOS DELIGIANNIS AND SPYRIDON LOUVROS

11 5G C-RAN Uplink Cross-Layer Optimization to Support Massive Traffic Sensor Network Services
SPYRIDON LOUVROS AND NIKOS DELIGIANNIS

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